Sentences with phrase «past events do»

That is the point infinite past events do not happen in the real world.

As far as using probabilities to determine whether past events did occur, I think that can sometimes be done with a great deal of confidence.

But one can never determine whether a past event did occur solely on the basis of probabilities.

Not exact matches

Members of the Trump administration walked out of the White House Correspondents» Dinner Saturday night during a performance by standup comic Michelle Wolf, who attacked the administration's relationship to the truth as well as the past behavior of the president, who did not attend the event for the second year in a row.

I do not believe Breitbart News has adequately stood by me during the events of the past week and because of that I believe it is now best for us to part ways.

So, do as we did and reach out to publications that would be interested in covering your event; send them a special invitation (for example, try personalizing a message about some of their past writing that you enjoyed, and say why).

Amazon has previously done well with comedy series at the Golden Globes, with both Transparent and Mozart in the Jungle taking home top honors at the event in past years.

«Companies that have sent high - level delegations to this conference in Wuzhen in the past have often done so because there is some type of significant issue with their access to the market,» said an industry source familiar with the event who declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter.

Then, this past weekend, Shkreli did a Reddit Ask Me Anything event.

The Committee noted that a federal investigation into the famous 2010 pipeline spill in Marshall, Michigan, which released some 20,000 barrels of dilbit into the nearby Kalamazoo River, «did not report that specific properties of the products transported through the pipeline at the time of the event or in the past had caused or contributed to the pipeline damage.»

I am not sure that what happened last week is proof of anything I've been saying, but I do think that the framework I have used over the past decade has been useful, at least to me, in understanding both the rebalancing process in China and the events that led up to the global crisis of 2007 - 08.

Like most people do this time of year, your resident Pagemodo bloggers (Deanna and Sarah) have been taking a look at the events of the past year, and are planning for the year to come.

In any event, even if one explains the fact that the US dollar has crashed in purchasing power in recent times, over a very condensed period of time, by more than 75 %, because it has been one of the strongest currencies in a pool of rapidly devaluing currencies for the past two years, I've discovered that quite often, even presentation of indisputable facts can not sway people to believe something that they simply do not want to believe.

«Last week showed how much more work we need to do to enforce our policies and help people understand how Facebook works and the choices they have over their data,» Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan and Deputy General Counsel Ashlie Beringer wrote in a statement Wednesday, Most of the security page updates have been in the works for some time, «but the events of the past several days underscore their importance.»

In a choice between upping the price to meet increased demand and maintaining regular prices so as not to be accused of price gouging — as Uber typically is accused of doing if the company keeps its surge pricing on during high - volume events like this — the company decided to avoid the errors of its past.

But that acquisition, as events over the past week have shown, did not go smoothly.

heres a holiday that has maintained its meaning thru - out the ages, why... the JEWISH have reverence for the past, its lessons and people that taught them, the events that shaped the jewish culture... most of the rest have nothing worth remembering besides there past and since thats not held with any amount of importance the future looks bleek at best... we are what we are because of yesterday, and tomorrow doesn't exist if today becomes our deathbed!

6 I do not want to foreclose other possibilities such as that Jesus» presence is mediated by God or is that of the risen Jesus who is now enjoying new experiences in «heaven,» but this essay deals only with the re-presentation of past events.

Does «Christ» name only the past historical figure of Jesus or the past event in which he was central?

The second and third meanings inapplicable to historical events in the past have to do with modes of presence in which something other than one's own subjectivity is present to that subjectivity.

As a sometimes - event organizer for the past fifteen years, I can guarantee you that those sharing a stage or tent do not necessarily the Get - along Gang behind the scenes!

I didn't actually see the events unfold and have to trust the source that educates me about a time in the past.

This interpretation of the cross as a permanent fact rather than a mythological event does far more justice to the redemptive significance of the event of the past than any of the traditional interpretations.

«I hope and pray that the events in my own life over the past couple years serve as a warning to all who, like I did, believe they are standing firm,» stated Tchividjian.

I hope and pray that the events in my own life over the past couple years serve as a warning to all who, like I did, believe they are standing firm.

We do not merely experience a present replica of something remembered, but that past event itself, as past.

We've hosted Epic Fail events around the country over the past few years and continue to do so.

This does not mean that it is a Word which is simply present in a sacred event of the past, nor does it mean that it is merely addressed to historical events, or confined to an historical realm.

He believes that the moral reflection of those who have been spared the most horrendous events of the past century can be true only if it grapples with what others have suffered and done.

The intuitive decision as to whether an event belongs to the past or future does not depend upon any aspect of quantity (i.e., whether the event belongs to a sequence having infinite or finite members), but does depend upon an aspect of quality (i.e., whether the content of the said event is sufficiently rich or particularized).

Or maybe there's resting going on for one big cataclysmic event... Do you really think the world is going to get off scot - free from all the filth it's been engaging in and spewing this past century, and especially this past decade?

It would appear that we do not have two different kinds of causation but two ways of speaking about a process, dependent on the speaker's perspective on a particular stage of the event - succession Supposing we are contemporaneous with an electron, we look at its present state in relation to its past, and we say «efficient causation»; if we look at its present state in relation to its future, we say «final causation.»

So, I don't agree, but do understand that this is just another event in human history that must come to past.

It is therefore inappropriate to accentuate, as has been done in some past evangelical experience, the immutability of Christian truth once formulated, as if that authority were enjoyed by our articulations rather than being reserved to the canonical texts themselves and the historical events behind them.

Thus the resurrection of Christ is not merely an event in a past that is now over and done with but also a continuing event, first of all in God and then in people who have surrendered or committed themselves to Christ.

For not only do the priestly and institutional forms of Christianity submit to the heteronomous authority of a series of events that are irrevocably past, but the thought of the Christian theologian himself has been closed to a truly dialectical meaning of the sacred.

Oh, the desolation of old age, if to be an old man means this: means that at any given moment a living person could look at life as if he himself did not exist, as if life were merely a past event that held no more present tasks for him as a living person, as if he, as a living person, and life were cut off from each other within life, so that life was past and gone, and he had become a stranger to it.

At least we know what liberation theology is, it focuses on historically accurate events and how to overcome the wrongs done in the past.

Yet he does not seem to recognize that this can only mean one thing: The revelation of God in Christ must come to you and me by way of a kind of interchange between individuals in deep communion, whereby the meaning of past events can possess our minds and transform our lives, even as it did in the fellowship that formed around Jesus.

To say an event is «past» for God does not mean that ii is absent from his present awareness; it means that it is not the «final increment» of determinate detail contained in that aware.

For the kerygma maintains that the eschatological emissary of God is a concrete figure of a particular historical past, that his eschatological activity was wrought out in a human fate, and that therefore it is an event whose eschatological character does not admit of a secular proof.

If what justifies one's life and shows that it is indeed worth living is surviving a set of horrendous events, then everything that happens later and everything one does later must be interpreted and shaped by reference to those past events.

This does not present us with facts of the past in their bare actuality, nor does it lead to encounter with human existence and its interpretation, but, as a sacramental event, it re-presents the events of the past in such a way that it renews them, and thus becomes a personal encounter for me.

This does not mean that men had to wait till the nineteenth century before seeing how events, grouped in long series, were absorbed into the past.

This has to do with what nowadays is styled the cultural relativism that marks any report of events in the past.

However it may be with us today, it is important that we recognize that for a first - century Jew «memorial» did not mean reverie about past events; it meant the act of vitally recalling into the present that which those events achieved for the Jewish people.

It may involve (as it sometimes does) a process of extrapolation from the present scene, whereby divine commitment to the future is proclaimed in divine judgment or in redemption, or in both; or it may sweep backward in time to bring past events forcefully into the present with incisive relevance.

His doctrine holds that everything is creative, producing something that did not exist before it; and it is these creative events that are the causes of other, later events perceiving them as they pass into the past (RSP 134f).

And similarly, when possession is taken of the land and Joshua's work is done, we read as if from his lips that magnificent confessional recital of past events in Josh.

Although we differ on at least one point in the interpretation of Whitehead's philosophy (he holds the system to require that God acts efficiently by mediating to present events finite efficient causes derived from the past), I do not see how his God acts coercively in any of the senses outlined in the previous chapter.